Washington.

"Exegi monumentum ære perennius."-HORACE.

"Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No monument set off his memories,

But the eternal substance of his greatness."

The

FAMILIAR to me is each mightiest name
Of empire-founders from the world begun;
conquerors of nations, who have run
Their comet-path of pestilence and flame-
Assyria, Persia, Rome, and Grecia, claim
Ninus and Cyrus, Cæsar, Philip's son ;

The North sent forth her "Scourge of God" the Hun;

The East yet shakes at Timur's horrid fame;

And in these latter days how redly shone
Napoleon's bloody star! Oh! but on One
Without a sob of grief, a blush of shame,
Doth History her solemn finger rest:-
Most virtuous, wisest, glory of the West,
Man, patriot, hero, stainless Washington.

Washington.

(Continued.)

"Ille, velut pelagi rupes immota, resistit,
Ut pelagi rupes magno veniente fragore,
Quæ, sese multis circumlatrantibus undis
Mole tenet."-Eneid vii. 587.

"Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Nec vultus instantis tyranni,
Mente quatit solidâ ;-

Si fractus illabatur orbis,

Impavidum ferient ruinæ."-HORACE.

BEHOLD him, champion in young Freedom's fight,
Serene, sufficient, patient, undismay'd,
Humble the haughty Briton's arm'd parade.
As a crag breasts the full Atlantic's might :
See him, the soldier in the cause of Right,
Triumphant, sheath his unambitious blade;
Alike by homage, tumult, all unsway'd,
Clothe Liberty in order; call forth Light
Out of the abyss of Anarchy; unmask
The Gallic spectre of Equality,

While the drunk World reel'd round him; and his

task

Complete, resume the simple citizen;

So die exemplar to us petty men ;

A spectacle for all futurity.

Tutashington.

(Concluded.)

"Calm as a frozen lake, when ruthless winds
Blow flercely, agitating earth and sky."
WORDSWORTH.

It is the mighty calmness of thy soul
That makes thee all sublime: if in the jar
Of what then seem'd a most unequal war ;
In victory's flush; or in the hard control
Of fresh Enthusiasm trampling down the goal
Of Freedom touch'd, not turn'd; whether thy car
Was myriad-dragg'd; when standing at the bar
Of Calumny, impeach'd; or in the roll

Of fireside years, thy rule laid freely down.

So some vast lake of thy Columbia shows,
When fierce winds howl and winter tempests frown,
Its icy surface to the northern snows:

So, when the summer suns above it pass,
Lies in a limpid sheet of liquid glass.

Reflection on the History of Man.

Ὅτι μὲν οὖν πᾶσιν τοις οὖσιν ὑπόκειται φθόρα καὶ μεταβόλη σχέδον οὐ προσδεῖ λόγου· ἱκανή γάρ τῆς φυσέως ἀνάγκη παραστῆσαι τὴν τοιαύτην πίστιν.-POLYB. 1. 6. c. 57.

I HEARD two Voices: one was of Despair, Wailing the mournful changes of the Past:"What," sighed she, "what of good or great shall last?

"Though now Art tills the soil that erst was bare, "Though Freedom reigns, and Science smileth where "All once with Ignorance was overcast,

"Shall not the Western World, tho' proud and vast, "The fate of Egypt and of India share? "These, long degenerate, wrapt in sloth and gloom, "Were Learning's birthplace, Glory's primal throne; "Art's infant cradle, Wisdom's sacred well. "A curse is on Man's greatness, like the doom "Of him who rolls up Hades' steep the stone

"That ever slips back to the abyss of Hell."

Beflection on the History of Man.

(Continued.)

"There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.'

TENNYSON.

THE other Voice was Hope's: "No more," her song, "Worse than Egyptian darkness shall confound "This living globe. The blessed ships, that bound "O'er ocean, waft to each unletter'd throng

"True Wisdom; Right at length shall master Wrong; "Love root out Prejudice; fair Peace be crown'd "Eternal; War be trampled on the ground, "And Earth its last, best, victor-shout prolong. "No more shall perish human Thought:-no more, "Rob'd in rich vellum, screen'd from vulgar eyes, "Exclusive Knowledge sleeps; to cottage door, "Equal, as to the palace gate, she flies;

"Nor barbarous horde, nor power's unchalleng'd

sway,

"Shall shut her henceforth from the light of day."